National Geographic Photo Camp (Photo credit: poptech)

NatGeo’s Best Photos of October 2012

Pity that the title and subject of this photo is so prominently printed otherwise you’d think it’s something photographed on Mars (or a still from some Sci-Fi movie) wouldn’t you?

It is one of NatGeo’s Best Photos of October 2012.  The very next photo is of a silken-streamed waterfall over near-black cliffs.  This is a standout fine art image.

This mini-gallery, published two days back, is worth a quick look; the photos run the gamut – from scenic to macro, from pets to photojournalism, there is a nice mix.  Don’t miss these acrobats on a wall!

Vanity Fair’s Best Photos of Kate Moss

Kate Moss is an iconic name in Modeldom for reasons not relevant to photography . . . well, at least not directly.  Her original ‘waif look’ is captured in the very first image of Vanity Fair’s Kate Moss gallery, also published a few days back.  

They’ve published a contact sheet from what must have been a test shoot with the photographer, Corinne Day, whose photographs launched Moss’s career when she was a teenager.

That we’re talking about a slip of a girl comes across plainly in this candid and, frankly, it does raise some ethical issues associated with the modelling profession.

All those famous shots of Moss are in this one gallery, plus some personal rarities.

Dali-esque Best Photos of a Slit-Scan Camera

Jay Mark Johnson doesn’t need Photoshop – he and his camera are a funky new kind of Photoshop by themselves.  He uses a slit-scan landscape camera to take panoramic landscapes with a twist.  To quote Joe Berkowitz, Johnson’s Photography is something that “messes with space, time, your head.”

Johnson’s photographs can be called ‘abstract patterns of landscapes’.  Or they may be an abstraction of a rhythmic gymnast whose ‘apparatus’ is not ball or ribbon but arms!  Isn’t this ‘Dali-esque’ Photography?

Whatever niche Johnson’s quirky and unusual photographs may have in the discipline of Photography, they’re worth a look for both, the novelty and the art.